The Minutes below should be considered a rough draft - 3/26/92 Megan
IETF Netfax Working Group Meeting
San Diego, 3/16/92 9:30 AM
Minutes
The IETF Netfax Working Group met at the San Diego IETF
meeting. The primary purpose of the meeting was to get a
progress report and plan future work.
1) Needleman reported that the file format document has
been accepted by the IESG which has recommended to the IAB
that it be accepted as a proposed standard. Every indication
is that this will happen.
2) Needleman reported that work is going on to convene a meeting
under the sponsorship of the Coalition for Networked Information
of all known groups doing applications involving networked
fax to talk about converting to the rfc file format and to
plan interoperability testing. He asked that, if anyone knew
of organizations that were involved in this area who hould
be involved in such a meeting, that he be contacted with
their names so he could invite them. He promised to keep
the mailing list informed on the status and outcome of
this effort.
3) Needleman also discussed the fact that after two years of
discussion and work no consensus had developed on any of
the other issues the group had been working on beyond the
file format such as addressing and routing issues and
that it didnt seem likely that such consensus was going
to develop any time soon.
4) It was decided that since such consensus was not going
to develop, the group would quiesce for awhile and not
meet again until something happened to create such a need.
It was felt that perhaps the CNI work would act as a
catalyst and that maybe in some of the interoperability
testing undertaken by that group, some solutions to
some of the unresolved issues such as routing and addressing
would be created that could act as a basis for future work
in the IETF working group.
5) The group thus decided not to meet again until there was
a need for it, and to follow the efforts of the CNI work.
Needleman promised to keep the working group updated on
those efforts by means of the working group mailing list.
6) The Following people attended the meeting:
Mark Needleman mhn@stubbs.ucop.edu
Mike Marcinkevicz mdm@csu.net
Bob Friesenhahn Pdrwr!bob@uunet.uu.net
Ronald Jacoby rj@sgi.com
Jeff Gumpf jag@po.cwru.edu
Cerafin Costillo cec@emulux.com
Stephanie Maraeciullo price@cmc.com
Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu
Jim Knowles jknowles@binky.arc.nasa.gov
Pete Grillo pl0143@mail.psi.com
Max Hillson hillson@koala.enet.dec.com
Greg Vaudreil gvaudre@nri.reston.va.us
Jon Postel postel@isi.edu